When you're setting up a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet that contains date information, you'll speed your task if you let Excel do the tedious work of filling in columns of individual date entries.

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The Today() function represents the current date in Microsoft Excel. If you type the =Today() function in any cell and press Enter, Excel will show you the current date. Therefore, this method is used ...

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Although Google Sheets and Excel Online are two of the best free online spreadsheets editing apps, you may not like certain features of them. For example, the date format. In case you do not want to ...

Microsoft Excel’s conditional formatting is a wonderful “automatic” feature that allows you to formats cells based on the value of those cells or the value of the formulas in those cells. For example, ...

Q. When I paste a large amount of data into Excel containing dates as far back as the 1800s, the recent dates display correctly as valid dates, but the older dates automatically convert to text. I ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. A new setting in Excel gives users control over the automatic data conversion feature that forced scientists to ...